The bill is an administration bill, and Johnson put
only $50 million in the budget for it, and in order to get very
much more than that you'd have to drop an atomic bomb from him.

Q:

You mentioned a private conversation you had with him
not so long ago in which you discussed this subject. How great
is his interest?

Lasker:

He's very interested in seeing the passage of all the
legislation that he has initiated, and I had talked to him,
as I think I told you, just recently about the need for
establishing task forces in these centers proposed by the bill
for better treatment and trial of drugs for breast cancer,
for cancer of the lung, for cancer of the intestines, various
forms of cancer endocrine aspects of cancer and for clinical
trials of various drugs in heart disease and in stroke and for
a task force for an artificial heart, so that these centers
wouldn't just be centers for people who are getting advanced
treatment but really getting a lot of nembutal and no new ideas,
no new clinical ideas being used at all, because this can happen,
you know, where you get into a big institution and the head of